{"id":311,"date":"2008-03-12T17:13:30","date_gmt":"2008-03-12T07:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/03\/12\/in-the-service-of-the-flesh-reviewed\/"},"modified":"2008-03-12T17:18:49","modified_gmt":"2008-03-12T07:18:49","slug":"in-the-service-of-the-flesh-reviewed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/03\/12\/in-the-service-of-the-flesh-reviewed\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;In the Service of the Flesh&#8221; Reviewed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just stumbled upon this review of my zombie story &#8220;In the Service of the Flesh&#8221; by the insightful Chuck McKenzie on the <strong>Horrorscope<\/strong> website. It&#8217;s always good to get a rave review. The last sentence is particularly pleasing.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8216;In the Service of the Flesh&#8217; is Rob Hood\u2019s latest contribution to the zombie genre, and it\u2019s a beaut. I can\u2019t say too much about it without giving away the plot, so I\u2019ll limit myself to mentioning only that it\u2019s laugh-out-loud funny, and boasts levels of gore that would make George Romero blanch. This may well be the very best zombie tale I\u2019ve ever read.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>from a review of <em><strong>Australian Dark Fantasy and Horror 2007 Edition<\/strong><\/em> on the <strong>Horrorscope<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/ozhorrorscope.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/book-review-australian-dark-fantasy-and.html\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>, 4 March 2008.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Chuck has been writing his own online &#8220;real-time&#8221; tale of a zombie apocalypse on his &#8220;One Day At A Time&#8221; blog. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/chuckmck.livejournal.com\/605.html\" target=\"_blank\">where it began<\/a> and here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/chuckmck.livejournal.com\/14286.html\" target=\"_blank\">latest installment<\/a>. It&#8217;s definitely worth your while to check it out: a full-on zombie novel&#8230; and it&#8217;s free.<\/p>\n<p>And here is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brimstonepress.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brimstone Press website<\/a>, so you can order of copy of the book that includes &#8220;&#8230;the best zombie tale&#8230;ever&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just stumbled upon this review of my zombie story &#8220;In the Service of the Flesh&#8221; by the insightful Chuck McKenzie on the Horrorscope website. It&#8217;s always good to get a rave review. The last sentence is particularly pleasing. &#8216;In &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/03\/12\/in-the-service-of-the-flesh-reviewed\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26,3,14,60,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}